Romans 3

1 What, then, is the preeminence of the Jew? Or what, the profit of his circumcision?

aparañca yihūdinaḥ kiṁ śreṣṭhatvaṁ? tathā tvakchedasya vā kiṁ phalaṁ?

2 Much, every way: —First, indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

sarvvathā bahūni phalāni santi, viśeṣata īśvarasya śāstraṁ tebhyo'dīyata|

3 For what? If some distrusted, shall their distrust make, the trust of God, void?

kaiścid aviśvasane kṛte teṣām aviśvasanāt kim īśvarasya viśvāsyatāyā hānirutpatsyate?

4 Far be it! But let, God, prove to be, true, albeit, every man, be false! Even as it is written—That thou mightest be declared righteous in thy words, and overcome when thou art in judgment.

kenāpi prakāreṇa nahi| yadyapi sarvve manuṣyā mithyāvādinastathāpīśvaraḥ satyavādī| śāstre yathā likhitamāste, atastvantu svavākyena nirddoṣo hi bhaviṣyasi| vicāre caiva niṣpāpo bhaviṣyasi na saṁśayaḥ|

5 But, if, our unrighteousness, commendeth, God’s righteousness, what shall we say? Surely, not unrighteous, is God who visiteth with his anger? After the manner of men, I am speaking, —

asmākam anyāyena yadīśvarasya nyāyaḥ prakāśate tarhi kiṁ vadiṣyāmaḥ? ahaṁ mānuṣāṇāṁ kathāmiva kathāṁ kathayāmi, īśvaraḥ samucitaṁ daṇḍaṁ dattvā kim anyāyī bhaviṣyati?

6 Far be it! Else how shall God judge the world?

itthaṁ na bhavatu, tathā satīśvaraḥ kathaṁ jagato vicārayitā bhaviṣyati?

7 But, if, the truth of God, by my falsehood, hath the more abounded unto his glory, why, any longer, am, even I, as a sinner, to be judged?

mama mithyāvākyavadanād yadīśvarasya satyatvena tasya mahimā varddhate tarhi kasmādahaṁ vicāre'parādhitvena gaṇyo bhavāmi?

8 And why not, according as we are injuriously charged, [and] according as some affirm that we say, Let us do the bad things, that the good ones may come? whose sentence is, just.

maṅgalārthaṁ pāpamapi karaṇīyamiti vākyaṁ tvayā kuto nocyate? kintu yairucyate te nitāntaṁ daṇḍasya pātrāṇi bhavanti; tathāpi tadvākyam asmābhirapyucyata ityasmākaṁ glāniṁ kurvvantaḥ kiyanto lokā vadanti|

9 What then? do we screen ourselves? Not at all! For we have before accused both Jews and Greeks of being, all under sin;

anyalokebhyo vayaṁ kiṁ śreṣṭhāḥ? kadācana nahi yato yihūdino 'nyadeśinaśca sarvvaeva pāpasyāyattā ityasya pramāṇaṁ vayaṁ pūrvvam adadāma|

10 Even as it is written—there is none righteous, not even one,

lipi ryathāste, naikopi dhārmmiko janaḥ|

11 There is none that discerneth, There is none that seeketh out God:

tathā jñānīśvarajñānī mānavaḥ kopi nāsti hi|

12 All, have turned aside, together, have become useless, There is none that doeth kindness, not so much as one:

vimārgagāminaḥ sarvve sarvve duṣkarmmakāriṇaḥ| eko janopi no teṣāṁ sādhukarmma karoti ca|

13 A sepulchre opened, is their throat, with their tongues, have they used deceit, the poison of asps, is under their lips,

tathā teṣāntu vai kaṇṭhā anāvṛtaśmaśānavat| stutivādaṁ prakurvvanti jihvābhiste tu kevalaṁ| teṣāmoṣṭhasya nimne tu viṣaṁ tiṣṭhati sarppavat|

14 Whose mouth, of cursing and bitterness, is full,

mukhaṁ teṣāṁ hi śāpena kapaṭena ca pūryyate|

15 Swift, are their feet to shed blood;

raktapātāya teṣāṁ tu padāni kṣipragāni ca|

16 Destruction and misery, are in their ways,

pathi teṣāṁ manuṣyāṇāṁ nāśaḥ kleśaśca kevalaḥ|

17 And, the way of peace, have they not known:

te janā nahi jānanti panthānaṁ sukhadāyinaṁ|

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

parameśād bhayaṁ yattat taccakṣuṣoragocaraṁ|

19 Now we know that, whatsoever things the law saith, to them who are within the law, it speaketh, in order that, every mouth, may be stopped and all the world come, under penal sentence, unto God.

vyavasthāyāṁ yadyallikhati tad vyavasthādhīnān lokān uddiśya likhatīti vayaṁ jānīmaḥ| tato manuṣyamātro niruttaraḥ san īśvarasya sākṣād aparādhī bhavati|

20 Inasmuch as, by works of law, shall no flesh be declared righteous before him, —through law, in fact, is discovery of sin.

ataeva vyavasthānurūpaiḥ karmmabhiḥ kaścidapi prāṇīśvarasya sākṣāt sapuṇyīkṛto bhavituṁ na śakṣyati yato vyavasthayā pāpajñānamātraṁ jāyate|

21 But now, apart from law, a righteousness of God hath been manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets, —

kintu vyavasthāyāḥ pṛthag īśvareṇa deyaṁ yat puṇyaṁ tad vyavasthāyā bhaviṣyadvādigaṇasya ca vacanaiḥ pramāṇīkṛtaṁ sad idānīṁ prakāśate|

22 A righteousness of God, through faith in [Jesus] Christ, unto all that have faith; for there is no distinction, —

yīśukhrīṣṭe viśvāsakaraṇād īśvareṇa dattaṁ tat puṇyaṁ sakaleṣu prakāśitaṁ sat sarvvān viśvāsinaḥ prati varttate|

23 For, all, have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

teṣāṁ kopi prabhedo nāsti, yataḥ sarvvaeva pāpina īśvarīyatejohīnāśca jātāḥ|

24 Being declared righteous freely by his favour through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: —

ta īśvarasyānugrahād mūlyaṁ vinā khrīṣṭakṛtena paritrāṇena sapuṇyīkṛtā bhavanti|

25 Whom God hath set forth as a propitiatory covering, through faith in his blood, for a showing forth of his righteousness, by reason of the passing-by of the previously committed sins,

yasmāt svaśoṇitena viśvāsāt pāpanāśako balī bhavituṁ sa eva pūrvvam īśvareṇa niścitaḥ, ittham īśvarīyasahiṣṇutvāt purākṛtapāpānāṁ mārjjanakaraṇe svīyayāthārthyaṁ tena prakāśyate,

26 In the forbearance of God, —with a view to a showing forth of his righteousness in the present season, that he might be righteous even when declaring righteous him that hath faith in Jesus.

varttamānakālīyamapi svayāthārthyaṁ tena prakāśyate, aparaṁ yīśau viśvāsinaṁ sapuṇyīkurvvannapi sa yāthārthikastiṣṭhati|

27 Where, then, the boasting! It is excluded. Through what kind of law? Of works? Nay! but through a law of faith:

tarhi kutrātmaślāghā? sā dūrīkṛtā; kayā vyavasthayā? kiṁ kriyārūpavyavasthayā? itthaṁ nahi kintu tat kevalaviśvāsarūpayā vyavasthayaiva bhavati|

28 For we reckon that a man is to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

ataeva vyavasthānurūpāḥ kriyā vinā kevalena viśvāsena mānavaḥ sapuṇyīkṛto bhavituṁ śaknotītyasya rāddhāntaṁ darśayāmaḥ|

29 Or, [is God] the God, of Jews only, and not of the nations also? Yea! of the nations also: —

sa kiṁ kevalayihūdinām īśvaro bhavati? bhinnadeśinām īśvaro na bhavati? bhinnadeśināmapi bhavati;

30 If, at all events, God is one, who will declare righteous—the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through their faith.

yasmād eka īśvaro viśvāsāt tvakchedino viśvāsenātvakchedinaśca sapuṇyīkariṣyati|

31 Do we then make, law, void through means of our faith? Far be it! On the contrary, law, we do establish!

tarhi viśvāsena vayaṁ kiṁ vyavasthāṁ lumpāma? itthaṁ na bhavatu vayaṁ vyavasthāṁ saṁsthāpayāma eva|